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Software Performance Engineering For Banks And Financial Institutions

Performance is one
quality of software that can make or mar it. Poor performance can cause major
losses. Hence, performance is an integral part of the various functions of Banks
and Financial Institutions. Financial Institutions invest heavily in IT
products and services for their better survival. Performance Engineering
reduces TCO for IT and optimizes application performance.

Software Performance:

Software performance
problems usually occur due to a fundamental misunderstanding of dealing with
performance objectives. The idea is to tune for performance after getting the
functionality right. Performance problems are complicated and require extensive
code changes. Systematic planning and predicting the performance of the
emerging software throughout the development process help in managing software
performance properly.

The
three measures of performance are Speed, Scalability and Stability, in which
discrepancies may occur. Performance Engineering is all about solving a problem
to achieve a desired and beneficial outcome.

Large development and
implementation costs and the risk of losing of brand equity escalate the cost
of application failure. According to Newport Group research, the hourly cost of
downtime per million dollars of daily-generated online business revenue can
range between 9,500 and 27,500,

Importance
of Performance Engineering for Banks and Financial Institutions:

The services like loan, card, insurance, ERP and many more
provided by banks and other financial institutions are subjected to improved
Software Performance Engineering. Testing Banking Systems help to benchmark
applications for users, predict the applications performance, fix problems in
early stages, enhance the speed and response time of applications, prevent
customer annoyance and loss, and get the most cost effective investment plan.

To get proper utilization of Performance Engineering, test
for common performance bottlenecks and transactions must be conducted. Creation
of re-usable test scripts and tracking defects to closure are some way to make
it happen.

Server Side and Client Side Monitoring are crucial for
finer performance measure.

Reporting:

Testing Banking Systems is
followed by the submission of a test report containing ReadyTestGos primary
client and server side observations, its analysis of the correlated client and
server side data and it would attempt to identify any and all bottlenecks in
the application.

The
graph in the following figure depicts a typical client and server side
co-relation showing that the web site under test failed to scale beyond a user
load of around 55 concurrent users due to high CPU utilization. It also shows
that user processes were the primary contributors to the high CPU utilization
observed and that CPU utilization by the Kernel and the I/O subsystem was
nominal.

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